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169pp. Inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Some soiling to covers, spine sunned; some foxing on title and early pages.
Hardcover. Very Good ++. Hardcover (no dust jacket) in very good ++ condition. Pages inside clean and bright. Plastic covers very clean. [NV-13]
96 pages. Features: Kageo Miura - a master of Roketsu-Zome art; Surface Design - Redefining the Boundaries; Beetle Wings - Jewels of Nature; The Hidden Image - Photographic Processes in Surface Design; Silk Painting for Haute Couture - Sissi Siska; Donna Martin; Elizabeth Busch; Tamara Jaworska; Lenore Davis; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards with black mushrooms decoration. Light wear and discoloration to dust jacket. 5 3/4"w x 7"h. 48 pages. Pictures by Erik Blegvad.
Paginated 121:230. Crease on both corners of front cover.
Paginated 231:332.
Very cute book in green cloth with gilt print at spine, embossed squirrel on cover (!), two lightly bumped corners, light sunning at spine edges. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered, tears at upper and lower spine, sunning, chipping at folds, not price clipped. Previous owner's book plate on front end paper; illustrated endpapers, b&w illustrations. Fictional tales based on "actual animals in an actual place," the animals being: the Beetle Rock,The Weasel,The Sierra Grouse, The Chicharee, The Black Bear, The Lizard, The Coyote, The Deer Mouse, The Stellar Jay, The Mule Deer, otter, cutthroat trout, osprey, mosquito, scud, mink, varying hare, merganser, moose, leech, leopard frog, snail, trumpter swan, beaver. ACTUAL first ed., (not a later printing). The words "First Edition" appear on publisher's page with NAP. Wrapped in protective clear cover.
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 333 pages, contents include: Hunting wasp, instinct, Peacock moth, Snail-shell bee, Sacred beetle, Beetle patriarch, Bembex wasp, Moult of the locust, Song of the cicada, Praying mantis, Mating of the mantis, Red ants, Experimentswith mason-bees, foamy cicadella, Burying beetle, Psyche moth, Crab spider, etc. Intro, editing by Edwin Teale.
PARIS, Lib. Delagrave - 1946 - In-8 - Cartonnage éditeur - Illustrations NB HT - 383 pages - Bon exemplaire
84 pages. Features: Niagara Falls "Maid of the Mist" cover photo; Slum Clearance is a Hoax; Robert Kennedy and the Liberals; Out to Launch; See America First; The Killer That Stalks the Newborn - deadly respiratory disease kills 25,000 per year; My Twelve Years With Kennedy - The Presidential Years - by his personal Secretary, Evelyn Lincoln; Actress Jean Simmons - The Mouse Becomes a Cat - color photos with article; Will Snick Overcome? - photo-illustrated article on the wildest of civil-rights groups which teaches its poorest Negroes to challenge whites. Fiction: Peace; The Gaudiest Thing on Wheels. Ads: Lucky Strike ad inside front cover features photo of man with bite out of his hat; Bell Telephone ad features photos of Carol Ann Pagano of New York City; General Electric Appliances; Nice two-page Volkswagen ad shows race car trailing a Beetle; Dial Soap; Rexall Sweepstakes; Nice color ad for the 1965 Ford Pickups with Twin I Beam independent suspension; Masterpiece cigarettes; Phillies Cheroots Cigars; Color-photo centerfold ad for Firestone features Indianapolis 500 photo; Flying A Service; National LP-Gas; Interesting one-page ad encouraging motorists to use seatbelts (before shoulder straps came into use); Tab soda - very nice one-page color photo ad inside back cover shows mom on beach with young son; Viceroy cigarette ad on back cover is color photo of an evening weenie roast on the beach. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
16 pages. Four pages of black and white photographic plates plus dozens of additional line drawings in text. Average wear. Some foxing. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., Third Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
275p. Small 8vo. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original dust jacket, spine darkened. Book Club Edition. Hardbound. Very good. LIT BOX 4
217p. Small 8vo. Original yellow cloth spine over paper covered boards, spine slightly darkened. Original priced dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. LIT BOX 4
335p. Small 4to. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original priced dust jacket, small tear rear edge. Hardbound. Very good. First Printing. LIT BOX 4
124 pages. Small creases to cover at top next spine.
Pages paginated 121-237. Some blue marks on front cover. Creasing on edge of front cover.
12 papers on entomology. 120 pages.
Crease to lower corner of back cover.
Piemme, 1997. Traduzione di Vincenzo Jacomuzzi. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
116 pages. Features: "Ohio" George Montgomery's Super-Trick; Gasser/Altered Maverick; Super beetle & Cuda 340; Project 'Vette wrap-up; and much more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Silk ball dress with tulle trimming; satin and gauze ball dress; Chasing a Moth; Some Social Customs; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring goods, fassementerie; China crape paletots, black grenadine suits; watch-case simulating a beetle; fan with satin stitch embroidery; crape, lace, and gros grain Bertha; Small Superstitions; On Domestic Scape-Goats; Hannah - continued; The fashionable season; sayings and doings; Aigrettes for hats, etc.; Desiree, by Justin McCarthy; The Fisherman's Darling; Lent - Ancient and Modern; Infinitely Little People; Family breakfasts and dinners; Alice Cary - write-up with illustration; Nice full-page illustration entitled "The Fisherman's Darling"; humor. Average wear. Book
Features: Gliders of the Night - the aerial wizardry of flying squirrels; What in this world can a beetle see?; The Crisis in our Forests - Canada's forests are running out of marketable timber; Seismic Considerations - a look at earthquakes in Canada; The 1983 Nature Canada photo contest; Water Music - The unsung melodies of water in motion. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: The People of the Caves; My Journey in Bhutan - I; An Arctic Man-Hunt; The Sydney "Flying-Machine"; An Odd Voyage; The Rescue Dogs of St. Bernard; How we Bluffed the Bushrangers; Life in a Japanese Prison; Short Stories - An Adventure in the "Towers of Silence", Hassan's Bride, Prospecting for Yaqui Gold; The Sportsmen of the Near East; Ning Wo the Wonderful; The Golden Beetle; The Riddle of the Zambesi; A Hero's Life Story; "The Hermit of Rotheneuf"; Marooned on a Sandbank; The "Tank Scrap"; Short Stories - A Luncheon Party in Rhodesia, The Ordeal of Mrs. Benns; The Deputation That Failed; An Island of Mystery; The Ghost of No. 1 Jetty; My Journey in Bhutan - II; The One-Eyed Parrot; The "Pearl of the Mediterranean"; A North Atlantic Tragedy; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina; A Lost Hamlet; How I Climbed Mount Popocatepetl; The Masked Bandit of Tucson; Under the Star and the Crescent - I; Pegging out the Empire; Short Stories - The Jail-break at Kungyangon, The Missing Bracelet, The Story of a Glass Eye; Earnst's Luck;; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - I; The Gipsy Polka; Abalone-Fishing; The Old Mexican Mine; A Mystery of the Bush; An Artist's Adventure; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - I; The Rival Rain-Makers; Pegging Out the Empire - II; The Clue of the Marked Bamboo; Earthquakes from a Japanese Point of View; The Robbery at Goldsmiths; The Experiences of a Deputy-Postmaster; Some Adventures with Sea-Lions; Under the Star and Crescent - II; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - II; Lost in an Underground Maze; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - II; On the Hill Crest Patrol; Stories of "Stripes" - the Tiger and the Tow-Boat, The Phantom Tiger; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - II; The Dynamite Smuggler; A House Built in a Day; Bulstrode and the Bear; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - I; The Castaways of Guadalupe Island; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - III; Sport in India; Phaulkon's Treasure; The Balinese and Their Ways; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - I; My Most Exciting Ballooning Experiences; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - III; The Gum-Hunter; A Himalayan Arcadia; The Jealously of Pepe; A Texan "Snake-Farm"; One New Year's Day; Twelve Hundred Miles in a Paper Boat; Fishing on the Molopo; Locating a Leak; Two Men in a Cave; A Wanderer in Asia Minor - I; Wilson's "Scoop"; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - II; A Race for a Gold-Mine; In the Far North-West - I; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - II; How I Lassoed a Moose. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book